Having a clear, consistent, and enterprise-wide accepted business glossary can have a huge effect to improve productivity, facilitate more effective communications, decrease costs of systems development and maintenance, increase data quality, and enhance systems integration.

Yet, so many organizations struggle to develop a commonly accepted vocabulary of business terms.

This seminar provides a comprehensive, proven, and effective approach to developing a shared, accepted, and useful business glossary within the enterprise and across enterprises.

The seminar will share a methodology, approaches, tools, techniques, and case studies of organizations that successfully developed a common business glossary.

In this informative, fun, and interactive seminar, you will learn:

• The greatest challenges regarding developing a shared business glossary from decades of past experiences
• How to identify and manage critical data elements for the glossary 
• How to jump-start development of a business glossary using "Universal" constructs, saving huge costs and time 
• 13 important guidelines for developing definitions within the business glossary 
• How to develop an effective process for developing the glossary using a template process 
• How to capture data rules and other important information about each glossary item 
• How to facilitate collaboration and resolve differences between semantics, definitions, and rules to provide consistency across the enterprise 
• Tools available to assist with the development of business glossary 

Seminar Takeaways

• Reusable domain models, definitions, and examples to jump-start your business glossary
• Template process and how to customize this process of developing the glossary for your organization 
• Set of guidelines in developing definitions that you can take and customize for your organization 
• Techniques, exercises, and practice in mastering common scenarios that arise in the development of the business glossary 
• And much more!